Brigitte Siebenkittel

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Brigitte Siebenkittel (born June 21, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German choir director , conductor , music teacher and breathing, speaking and voice teacher . From 1974 to 1991 she worked as a voice trainer and assistant in the Hamburg Boys Choir St. Nikolai and from 1991 to 2003 she directed the New Boys Choir Hamburg, which she founded . She holds the office of deputy chairperson of the Music in Youth Working Group.

Life

Brigitte Siebenkittel attended the Schlaffhorst-Andersen school in Eldingen near Celle after graduating from high school . After graduation, she taught at a college for social education in Neuendettelsau . This was followed by a job as a music teacher in a secondary school .

She later moved to Hamburg with her future husband, the budding doctor Frank Siebenkittel . Here she initially worked as a recorder teacher at the State Youth Music School in Hamburg and also worked on the night duty as an auxiliary nurse in the hospital. In order to be able to work as a music teacher again, she studied music and sport to become a teacher, successfully completed her studies and got a position at the Albert Schweitzer School in Hamburg. She later taught at the Pedagogical University.

Ekkehard Richter, church music director of the Church of St. Nikolai am Klosterstern , entrusted her in 1974 with the voice training of the Hamburg Boys Choir St. Nikolai . Siebenkittel expanded the originally pure boys' choir into a four-part ensemble with tenors and basses. During this time she also worked with the St. Nikolai Choir , the Monteverdi Choir Hamburg and various choirs in the Hamburg area. In 1990 the Hamburg Boys Choir St. Nikolai won the German Choir Competition in Stuttgart under her direction .

Ekkehard Richter gave up the position of choir director in 1991 . Since Siebenkittel was not given the direction, she left the boys' choir with 25 singers and founded her own choir in 1991 with Wolfhagen Sobirey, who was then director of the Hamburg State Youth Music School. At that time she was a singer in his New Choir Hamburg and the Chamber Choir Hamburg 13 . Based on this, she named the boys' choir Neue Knabenchor Hamburg, founded in 1991 by her and the former singers of the Hamburg Boys Choir St. Nikolai . As a scholarship holder of the German Music Council , she sat in 1996 a. a. with the Tölzer Knabenchor , the Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Windsbacher Knabenchor .

The ensemble has won several prizes in national and state competitions. Other highlights of her time with the New Boys Choir in Hamburg were, in addition to concert tours within Germany, tours through Hungary , Israel and the USA . Within Hamburg, the choir made 40 to 50 performances per year. Every year the choir played boy soloists with Jugend and had a number of soloist engagements. In addition, Siebenkittel founded the Hamburg Girls Choir in autumn 2000 . In April 2003 she finally gave up both choirs.

Since then she has worked as a freelance voice trainer and singing therapist, regularly leads voice training seminars and writes articles for the Neue Musikzeitung . She also sits on music commissions and juries. In addition, there are irregular collaborations with the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Choir Hamburg , with whom she rehearsed and performed several a cappella programs.

style

Both her colleagues and the audience regularly certify that she has the ability to perform the pieces she interprets with a lot of emotionality, regardless of style and epoch. Furthermore, Siebenkittel shows herself to be keen to experiment as a program designer, for example she performed a Bach chorale as an improvisation in Nystedt .

Under her, the Neue Knabenchor Hamburg sang not only old choral literature but also works from the field of new music , such as motets and movements specially written for it by Gerd Domhardt and Frank Löhr .

literature

  • Christian Böhme: Chaos and Discipline - the power of the voice, TonArt 11/01 . Published by the State Youth Music School Hamburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.amj-musik.de/module.php5?fid=7&mod=vorlagen&ident=5  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.amj-musik.de  
  2. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/autoren/brigitte-siebenkittel

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personal data
SURNAME Siebenkittel, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director, conductor and voice trainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin